in which i am once again dorky

[schmerica]

I have a half-hour between classes on Tuesday and Thursdays. Today I went to the student union, bought an apple fritter and a soda, and sat in the big window-y front area with the tables and chairs and clear view of the clock, and read Sunshine and wrote tiny snippets of random dialogue till it was time to leave for Medieval Judaism.

K: Fraser, in case you didn't notice, I'm avoiding you.

F: I did notice that, in fact.

[pause]

K: Well?

F: Hmm?

K: You're making it a little hard for me here.

F: Oh! Right you are, Ray. Pardon me.

And then during my walk to class I starting repeating "right you are" in my head until it sounded funny, and then "I want you" and "get you" and other such phrasings, and trying to figure out if the pronunciation of you as 'choo' after a word ending with a T is a regional dialect thing, and if so how broad a range it had. I came to no conclusions, however, as I realized I really have no clue who does and doesn't say it like that.

Comments

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

If it was part of something larger, it would be less random. *pokes it carefully*

It's definitely a part of general neutral American dialect, but I don't talk to enough people from other countries to have any idea if it's a part of English speech as a general rule.